Occupation: Architect Birth: July 8, 1906 Death: January 25, 2005
Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody..
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art..
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different peri….
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your litt….
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty borin….
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life.
I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In f….
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the sha….
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of ….
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's ….
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing..
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes..
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful..
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead..
All architects want to live beyond their deaths..
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?.
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright..
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture..
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not onl….